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shi chen

Epic film The Founding of a Republic marks 60 years of Chinese Communism - Telegraph - 1 views

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the founding of a republic

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  • shi chen on 06 Oct 09
     
    Is it a propaganda or PR tool?
  • jermaine lee on 07 Oct 09
     
    I think it can be said as a propaganda film because it draws a lot of Chinese to revisit the historical moment, then of cause, the stars in the film are doing a good job in drawing the audience in the first place lol~
Tony Sullivan

Background Briefing - 5 July 2009 - Cairo, a divided city - 0 views

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globalisation Egypt

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  • Cairo
  • Mr Berry: When you walk in the gate it's nice. It gives you the impression that maybe you have a place in Australia maybe, maybe it feels like you in Australia, maybe somebody else, OK, maybe in Saudi Arabia, or anywhere else in the world, maybe in Italy, maybe somebody has the same feeling like Oh, this looks somewhere in Rome, somewhere in Greece
    • Tony Sullivan
      Tony Sullivan on 05 Aug 09
       
      Describes 'gated communities' for the affluent, being established in desert areas beyond the border of Cairo city.
  • Mr Berry: Golf, it's a very prestigious thing.
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  • Not everyone back in Cairo is happy about the obsession with golf courses. Professor of Landscape and Architecture at Cairo University, Mohammad Refaat says they are a status symbol and the game doesn't come naturally to Egyptians
  • Mohammad Refaat: The first golf course that was created in these new developments was in Katameya Heights. It started - why is that? Because we started to have the Japanese in Egypt. The Japanese, they love golf, and we have several firms with Japanese managers, so it became a luxury to provide the service for them. But I believe that we're never going to be golfers as Egyptians, and I don't know, it's irritating now, because whenever you go, whenever you get a project, even in my private office, they say, 'Ah, the golf', and then we start doing the compound. The main idea of the golf from the owners' point of view is that to provide value for the people so that he can start to sell.
  • Mohammad Refaat: The thing is that I feel that we are Westernising ourselves. The thing is that due to the effect of the media, everybody wants to live in a Dallas, or in a Falconcrest or one of these things that we used to see when we're kids.
  • And they did not understand the Egyptian culture. If I speak about myself, I'd rather live in what we call the hara, or the alley, the old alley that we have, you know, when you have people all living in one street, of having all the services in the street, what we call the philosophy of the extended family. This is very, very Egyptian.
  • Anwar Sadat
  • opened up the country to the world, and very significantly, for the first time, all Egyptians could travel overseas.
  • Egyptians from all classes went abroad to get jobs in Gulf countries. They came back with money and with an appetite for things like shopping and luxury living. Some also brought back new ideas about Islam. It was more conservative and fundamentalist.
  • teachers, engineers, medical doctors, peasants, the large peasant migration
  • get passports, go and work in Jordan, in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, come back. Some of them also in Saudi Arabia perhaps never ever encountering women, right? And coming back with new notions of segregation, of headscarf, of Islamisation
  • Hagar Cohen: In Cairo today more and more women are segregated and wear the burqa, which is the full head and body cover. But everyone likes the shopping, and the new and glitzy malls are full of people in all kinds of dress
  • It can be uncomfortable now for women in western clothes, who don't wear scarves, because conservative men and women clearly show their distaste. This mix between consumerism and a very religious lifestyle is sometimes known as 'petro Islam'
  • Mona Abaza: They have different notions and variations of Islamic ideologies. There is a difference between a 16-year-old kid who is out of a family of 10 living in a slum, and a schoolteacher who lives long years in Saudi Arabia comes back, very much influenced by what I call the petro Islamic ideology, Saudi Arabian consumerists, very much into conservative accommodationist kind of religion, enjoying a shopping mall but at the same time dressing in Islamic code for instance. So marrying certain forms of consumer culture, but giving it a flavour that can look Egyptian, so that you convince yourself that you are different.
    • Tony Sullivan
      Tony Sullivan on 05 Aug 09
       
      Also discussed in relation to Salafism, a quietist social current encouraged by Saudi Araba, in 'The fever under the surface', The Economist 25 July 2009, p11-12, part of a special report on the Middle East.
  • the gated communities inside. the more upmarket, the faster they're selling, and they have names like Beverley Hills, Hyde Park and Dreamland.
  • Another kind of cultural reference for all of this is old Egyptian movies from like the 1950s you know, black-and-white films, where the setting was very, very often the Pasha's villa, which always had a very grand staircase, and a very grand entrance. This is the sort of lifestyle that Egyptians haven't had access to since the 1950s because of the crowding and so on and so forth. So now it's sort of become a lifestyle option for wealthy Egyptians that wasn't really there. So you can now have your own Pasha's villa.
  • Hagar Cohen: Dina Hussanein says she isn't comfortable living in a place with a name like 'Beverly Hills'. Dina Hassanein: That's a very sad thing, because we have a remarkable history and civilisation and yet, you know, we can't think of any Arabic word of our own that we could use to name the places. So I can tell you, Beverly Hills Egypt is nothing like Beverly Hills California
  • Hagar Cohen: Dina Hassanein is a modern woman. She lives on her own, and has a fiancé who lives nearby. She is very beautiful and smartly dressed in Western clothes. She has a job which involves interaction with all sorts of people
  • Hagar Cohen: Dina Hassanein and other residents have to rely on Old Cairo for almost everything, including shops, restaurants, and health services. There are also no local street markets, little shops or stalls, or workshops. In some places, the rules even forbid them. Big supermarket chains can be found easily, but you have to drive to get to them
  • Said Sadek: And you have rulers who believe in gated communities. Mubarak himself, lives in Sharem el Sheik or Borg el Arab, isolated, always isolated. The ruling elite in Egypt are isolated. And so you can tell by this political orientation of the elite that this is what they want, an isolated community because they cannot meet the demands of the masses. There are 40% of Egyptians below poverty line, earning less than $2 a day. And so this abject poverty amidst people who have a lot of money, may drive people to be envious
  • Very poor quality housing found in slums and shanty towns is expanding in Cairo
  • r Cohen: What in terms of sewage and garbage services? Are they available? Manal Tibe: We are talking about no water, so don't talk about sewage and garbage
  • Hagar Cohen: Manal Tibe says that the government isn't doing anything to improve conditions in slums, but has been very generous to private developers of gated communities. The desert land is subsidised by the government as well as the price of fuel, electricity and water. And that makes expenses in gated communities very low.
  • Manal Tibe: More hatefulness from poor to rich people and also to the government. Now, poor people that they want revenge, and this is being interpreted in some crimes against rich people.
  • Hagar Cohen: Dina Hassanein is missing city life, but at the same time she says that she doesn't fit in there any more
  • Dina Hassanein: It's not that I don't want to live there, it's just that our realities are very different, the places that we go are very different. If I were to walk into a slum I might get torn apart. You can't just walk in wearing normal clothes like we do into a place like that. I can barely walk down the streets without getting harassed actually, because it's a much more conservative society, so it's just different, it's almost impossible for these worlds to intermingle.
  • Hagar Cohen: These two very different worlds are on display inside some of Cairo's shopping malls. Western music there is piped through just as it is in any Australian city. This shopping mall is in the suburb of Giza. It's one of the most exclusive ones in Cairo. There's a care there serving Caesar salads and cappuccinos. Just across the road is the Giza Zoo, which is a popular hanging out venue for poorer families
  • This shopping mall
  • It's only a few days before Christmas when we're here, and in this Muslim country, it's ironic that Christian carols are playing throughout the atrium. Mona Abaza: It's a mix of definitely well-to-do Egyptians, and lots of expatriates, foreigners coming. You can see the Christmas decoration. During Ramadan they make Ramadan decorations, tents and Islamic style, and in Christmas they put Christmas decorations
  • Mona Abaza: There is this idea that the old downtown city is now slowly being depopulated by its, let us say, middle class. It used to be a very important commercial centre. It is now losing out this significance, because the centres have been now little by little moving out. So the idea is to get out of the city, because as if it's the inside is rotten, and it's very interesting how the poor can easily look at the lifestyles of the rich. Now this is evidently a bit of a problem for the rich, so that is why they opted for the American Dream, which is getting out and walling off.
  • Mona Abaza: If you look at it just visually, the problem is slums. One can easily say that the view is that as if the whole of Cairo is consisting of slums. Now the past 20 years, the neo liberal ideology of the government is to try and handle the problem of slums, and the way they handle it is as if it's an evil, a cancer that has to be drastically eliminated, with violence, because they consider and they believe that in slums, that we have the breeding of terrorist ideology, Islamist, poverty, violence etc. Now all this is quite often very over-exaggerated. I mean it's a form of discriminating the poor, that's clear. But you have the issue also of the city now experiencing a new form of cleaning up geared towards of course the encouraging of tourism and sites of consumption. So the cityscape is taking place as a huge space for consumer culture and tourism
  • Hagar Cohen: The American University, where Professor Abaza lectures, has also moved out to the desert and is now based in a town called New Cairo. She says it's a bad move, because a whole generation of well-off young people will be isolated, away from historical Cairo or the old Egyptian culture
  • Mona Abaza: You might be astonished but my students, 18 years old, 19 years, have never for instance known anything about downtown, have never even gone to downtown.
  • You will find the American fast food and the Egyptian fast food, and Italian, Mexican. Upstairs there is a McDonald's and Kentucky
  • Towheid Wahab: There is a rule here in the University. There's no mosque, there's no church, there's no temple, there's no monastery. All the people here are equal to do their religion by their own
  • Max Roderbeck: There are good reasons why they want to move, because you get a nice amount of space, you can re-brand yourself with a new image of being something that looks very modern instead of something that's fitted into a shabby old neighbourhood. There's certainly a trend, I mean there are quite a lot of institutions that have moved out.
  • Max Roderbeck: The danger of Cairo being hollowed out is pretty real. And I mean, some of the things that a city needs to be vibrant, seem to be already been pulled out of the centre of Cairo. I've seen other places where downtown becomes either a hollow shell, or ends up just being a sort of transport hub, you know, a sort of junction of roads and things. And I think it's a very real danger with Cairo.
  • Hagar Cohen: Somehow, Cairo has always managed to function as a lively city, says Max Roderbeck, but this time around, things are different
  • These satellite towns were developed in this way because of the government's quick sale of the land to private hands. They wanted to make a return quickly, and big villas and golf courses were in demand. But they don't work as lively urban centres, says environmental architect, Abbas el Zafarany
  • Tony Sullivan on 05 Aug 09
     
    The complexities of globalisation evident in Egypt's largest city and its surrounds
Tammy Nguyen

Catherine Deveny | Things That Say 'Melbourne' (Even More Than A Big M) - 0 views

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  • Tammy Nguyen on 31 Aug 09
     
    I found this is quite true =D
  • anonymous on 01 Sep 09
     
    YOU know you're from Melbourne if … You pretend the Sydney-Melbourne rivalry doesn't exist. Which it doesn't. Because Sydney doesn't care. And that really shits you. This article is hilarious... Thanks Catherine!
Rika Ninomiya

City of Melbourne - International relations - Osaka - 0 views

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Osaka Melbourne SisterCities

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  • The sister city relationship with Osaka was the first that Melbourne established.
  • A strong and beneficial sister port relationship already existed (established in 1974) between the Port of Osaka and the Port of Melbourne.
  • However, the sister city relationship was not formally established until 24 April 1978 at a ceremony in Osaka attended by the Lord Mayor. The stated aim at the time was to establish 'a people-to-people relationship with the aim of developing mutual friendships and a lasting and understanding relationship'.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 14 Aug 09
     
    It's not an official or new article but I actually just found out about this and thought this is pretty cool. They even have a logo of Melbourne and Osaka Sister Cities.
Nadeem Uddin

'Viagra cream' could prove safer - 0 views

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  • Nadeem Uddin on 21 Sep 09
     
    'Viagra cream' could prove safer\nViagra\nSide-effects can include headaches, blurred vision and upset stomach\n\nA cream allowing erectile dysfunction drugs to be applied directly to the skin could one day make them safer to use, say New York scientists.\n\nStudies in rats suggest that Viagra, Levitra and Cialis could pass through the skin in tiny capsules, they say.\n\nThe research, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, could mean fewer side-effects, and even significantly speed up the drug's action.\n\nHowever, it could be a decade before creams are fully ready for use.\n\nThe arrival of erectile dysfunction treatments in tablet form has been one of the success stories of the modern pharmaceutical industry, with some estimates suggesting that tens of millions of men worldwide have used them.\n\nHowever, although they have worked for many men, they also carry the risk of side-effects such as headaches, blurred vision or upset stomachs.\n\nIn addition, men with severe heart problems, or who have just suffered a stroke, are advised to avoid the tablets altogether or use them with extreme caution.\n\nLess risk\n\nFor many, this could be solved by the development of the cream, with would confine more of the active ingredients of the drug to a single area of the body, rather than circulating them widely.\n \nThe response time to the nanoparticles was very short, just a few minutes, which is basically what people want in an erectile dysfunction medication\nDr Kelvin Davies\nStudy author\n\nThe research team at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, in New York, used nanoparticles, each much smaller than a grain of pollen, and found a way to encapsulate particles of the drug inside.\n\nTheir early tests involved just a few rats bred to have erectile dysfunction later in life.\n\nOf these, 11 were treated with nanoparticles containing Cialis, a newer erectile dysfunction drug called sialorphin, and nitric oxide, a chemical also needed to wid
Maria D'Amato

'Slip carefully!' : Shanghai tackles bad English before expo - 0 views

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  • The Shanghai government, along with neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces
  • standardise signs and eliminate notoriously bad, and sometimes amusing, English translations.
  • A malfunctioning online translation tool may have helped a restaurant named "Translate server error"
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  • Last year a city-wide inspection by Shanghai's Language Affairs Commission found that more than one in 10 signs had incorrect translations
  • Beijing ran a similar campaign in preparation for last year's Olympics.
  • The Shanghai government, along with neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, published a 20-page guide book this week to standardise signs and eliminate notoriously bad, and sometimes amusing, English translations.
  • The official campaign prompted local media to share favourite mistranslations. At Shanghai's iconic Oriental Pearl Tower, visitors are warned "Ragamuffin, drunken people and psychotics are forbidden to enter", according to the Shanghaiist city blog.
  • Last year a city-wide inspection by Shanghai's Language Affairs Commission found that more than one in 10 signs had incorrect translations, the China Daily reported.
  • The city is preparing to hold the biggest-ever World Expo from May 1 to October 31. The city expects 70 million people, the vast majority of them Chinese, to attend the event, featuring pavilions from nearly 190 countries.
  • Blaze Yau on 27 Aug 09
     
    Lost in translation?
Yu Cao

During Visit by Bill Clinton, North Korea Releases American Journalists - washingtonpos... - 0 views

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N. Korea America journalist

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  • was on a "private humanitarian mission,"
  • North Korea rejected the administration's first choice for the trip -- former vice president Al Gore, who co-founded the television channel that employs the journalists --
  • special pardon
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  • Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists," KCNA reported.
  • U.S. officials denied late Tuesday night that any apology was offered.
  • North Korea had long made it clear that it expected a high-profile visit on behalf of the journalists, but Gore may not have been acceptable because he was viewed as their boss and thus not an appropriate symbol of the United States.
Nadeem Uddin

BBC NEWS | Africa | Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome - 0 views

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  • Nadeem Uddin on 21 Sep 09
     
    Now what do we all think about this? Is it fair to free a criminal because of his health reasons? What do you guys think?
  • Christoph Zed on 25 Sep 09
     
    It may not be "fair" - and no doubt there is discussion over what fairness even means - but given circumstances, I think it is commendable for governments, (or individuals for that matter) to pardon a person that has been convicted of criminal offenses, if their individual case has been assessed in regards to threat for the general public. If found that a long time prisoner does not pose a threat to society anymore for reasons of health or age, why not give him the dignity to live a few last years, with their families in some sort of dignity? (eg: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/21/has-biggs-pulled-another-fast-one-115875-21689197/) Of course this can never be an global statement for every convicted criminal out there, but I think forgiving can be more powerful than being revengeful or "seeking justice".
Christoph Zed

Venezuela bans Family Guy cartoon - 2 views

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media flow glocalisation culture clashes globalisation localisation

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  • Authorities in Venezuela say they will punish TV stations if they continue to broadcast episodes of cult US animation Family Guy.
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 28 Sep 09
       
      what I think is that authorities are those who work for the government or politics. so the issue is based on the decision of the government rather than general publics. therefore, the interactive communication between different cultures are limited by the politics.
  • the show should be banned because it promotes the use of marijuana
    • Andrew Ooi
      Andrew Ooi on 04 Oct 09
       
      If anyone wants to ban anything cigarrettes should be first on the list. This demonization of cannabis has gone on for far too long. Cannabis/Hemp species have been used for thousands of years for medicine, fabric, paper, biodiesel (recently, but you can use almost anything to make it anyways). If anyone disagrees I challenge you to a duel.
    • Nora Ibrahim
      Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
       
      True that Andrew! :-)
  • messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents
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  • Televen avoided the fine by pulling the show and replacing it with Baywatch.
  • Venezuelan TV is known for filling its schedules with re-runs of old US series and Latin American soap operas
  • Christoph Zed on 28 Sep 09
     
    Interesting move, I guess the "localization" process overlooked a few issues. Personally I think "the family guy" does quite often cross lines that should not be crossed, (eg: when making fun of pedophilia) The show highlights a trend in western society to ridicule any value and/or anything "sacred".
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  • Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
     
    I am a HUGE fan on Family Guy since they started airing in States and recently have been watching the episodes from Season Seven (compliments of RMIT Library) back to back. I must say there are loads of 'jokes' used in the episodes which I found was bordering on 'so wrong'. The writers do make fun of every single thing and no one is spared, not even physically challenged people.
  • fina ramlee on 04 Oct 09
     
    I've watched it once and I didn't like it.Everything about it is so wrong but I guess it's now a trend to use cartoons as medium for silly jokes.
  • anonymous on 06 Oct 09
     
    Some people might capture the meaning wrongly. Perhaps Venezuelans view Family Guy as those who criticize the western value. Since Venezuelan TV is know to re-runs of old US series and Latin American soap operas, they tend to manage the conventional value instead of looking at the west in a modern society who gets ridicule by the writers.
xinning ji

Rudd's new vision for Asia-Pacific | The Australian - 0 views

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  • Australians have grown too cynical about Asian institutions and regional diplomacy.
  • the great English poet Francis Thompson: "Our hearts, with many schemes so flawed, have grown cynical and bored."
  • This is Rudd's most ambitious statement for the G20 yet. The organisation was founded because of the Asian financial crisis a decade ago. It is small enough to be manageable but big enough to have the clout to affect all parts of the globe.
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  • Although I think Rudd in this essay focuses too much on China, at the expense say of India, he makes his usual sound case that China should have a more prominent role in global governance institutions. However, his balanced view on China is explicit. Rudd writes that he is "neither naive nor idealistic about China's nationalist ambitions".
Nadeem Uddin

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Slumdog child actors in new movie - 0 views

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  • The child stars of the hit film Slumdog Millionaire are set to star in another film, possibly sharing a screen with British actor Anthony Hopkins.
  • "Lord Owen's Lady".
  • The children and their families recently moved to new housing. The accommodation was arranged by the government and a trust formed by Slumdog's British director Danny Boyle.
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  • We have been given a new house and our condition is improving but Azhar's father did not live to see the good days,"
  • I will do it if my parents ask me to do it. I had a good time acting in the previous film. I would like to act in this new film also
  • Christoph Zed on 08 Sep 09
     
    Bollywood meets Hollywood
  • xinning ji on 14 Sep 09
     
    he is a lucky slumdog child. I like that movie after I watched it. I found it is not easy to a person from a poor man to be rich. Also he has to make an hard effort to fulfil the dream. so best wishes to Azhar.
Blaze Yau

Stirring tale of dancer who emerged from Mao's shadow - Film - Entertainment - 1 views

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Australian movie China Dance

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  • This image was imprinted in our minds
  • This was my bible
  • this was the book that my life should have been following. This man was our god who had saved us from hell! But when I went to America everything contained in this thing - the beliefs, the ideologies - all crumbled right in front of me. I realised I was really the victim of an incredible cultural brainwashing
  • Blaze Yau on 02 Oct 09
     
    A very good Australian film 'Mao's Last Dancer'. The main character(real one) is now living in Melbourne as a stockbroker. I think the film successfully highlights the contradiction between Communist China and America. Should go and see it.
  • fina ramlee on 04 Oct 09
     
    have you seen it Blaze? Anna said it was brilliant.
  • xuejiao lin on 05 Oct 09
     
    Personally, i appreciate this movie so much. Mao's Last Dancer was opened on the same day in Melbourne as another movie called The Founding of A Republic. That was an obvious ideological confrontation. Though the two movies are telling story in the same country. Compared with the Singapore Girl TV Commercial, which was made by Asian for showing oriental spirit to the western in a western way, Mao's Last Dancer was made by Australia for showing their understanding of the age of ideological confrontation. I think for many western audience, there are a lot of languages and ideology during that special years could not be understood forever. But i appreciate the director and adaptor so much. Because sometimes we need others to help us grow.
jung moon

South Korea aims to become Asia's new medical travel hub - 0 views

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South Korea plastic surgery Korean Wave asia aims hub

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  • the Seoul city government has launched a project to attract more foreign tourists seeking cosmetic surgery -- capitalising on the popularity of the "Korean Wave" of pop culture in Asia in recent years.
  • Cosmetic surgery is commonplace in South Korea. A Kyung Hee University survey in 2007 found that 47.3 percent of adults had experienced it.
Nora Ibrahim

Religion, the Facebook way | HonoluluAdvertiser.com | The Honolulu Advertiser - 1 views

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  • Nora Ibrahim on 04 Oct 09
     
    I did my critical case study on Facebook and the significance of the groups created on Facebook. I found this piece of news interesting because it is amazing how a social networking website can carry so much meaning and significance to some users/ individuals.
Maria D'Amato

Sony Walkman overtakes iPod in Japan - 0 views

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  • Sony's Walkman digital music player outsold Apple's iPod in Japan last week for the first time in more than four years, according to electronics research firm BCN.
  • Sony, whose Walkman cassette players pioneered the portable-music industry in the late 1970s, gained market share after introducing models including the W series of cordless players that sell for under $US108.
  • Sony has gained customers seeking less expensive products and those seeking high quality by broadening its lineup,” Kazuharu Miura, an analyst with Daiwa Institute of Research, said by telephone. “But you can't really say Sony regained its competitiveness against Apple unless it improves its market share in the U.S. and Europe.”
    • Nora Ibrahim
      Nora Ibrahim on 08 Oct 09
       
      Correct me if I am wrong, but I have always found Japanese citizens very nationalistic and Sony is a Japanese company. Could that have an impact on the consumer's choice?
Maria D'Amato

Millions set to disconnect their fixed-line phones - 0 views

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  • ABOUT 2 million people are considering ditching their fixed-line home phones, as Australians move closer to becoming one of the world's first wireless economies.
  • There are 105 mobiles for every 100 people, making Australia one of the most saturated markets in the world behind South Korea, with 114 mobile phones for every 100 people.
  • An ACMA study last year found the decline of fixed lines has been led by younger consumers. About 91 per cent of retirees said their main form of communication was the fixed-line phone, while 70 per cent of 18-to-31 year-olds consider mobile phones as their main form of communication.
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  • This year Telstra reported its fixed-line subscribers fell by four per cent to 9.2 million, while its mobile-phone subscribers increased four per cent to 9.7 million subscribers. An ACMA spokesman said Australians owned a total of 21.2 million mobile phones.
Maria D'Amato

Hotmail hacks easy as 123456 - 0 views

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  • Password security was thrown into the spotlight this week after it was revealed that 10,000 Hotmail user names and passwords had been leaked online. A day later, a separate list of 20,000 addresses and passwords for Gmail, Yahoo and AOL were found on the web.
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